With crowns on their heads and AR-15s in their arms, couples exchange vows in pro-gun church

Dressed in wedding attire — but with crowns on their heads and assault-style rifles in their arms — dozens of couples went to a pro-gun Pennsylvania church for a commitment ceremony on Wednesday.

The couples — some of them renewing their vows while others were exchanging them for the first time — are worshipers at the World Peace and Unification Sanctuary, also known as the Sanctuary Church.

The church, in Newfoundland, Pa., is led by Hyung Jin Moon, who called on his followers to bring unloaded rifles to the ceremony.

According to the church, the rifles and the crowns (some made of bullets) are the “accoutrements of the nation of Cheon Il Guk” — the sovereign kingdom of heaven on earth, according to the Southern Poverty Law Center.

The crowns, says the church, represent the “sovereignty of Kings and Queens.”

The rifles — similar to the one used in the Florida massacre — are the “rod of iron” that symbolize defending one’s family and community.

A 19-year-old male from near me was driving in the north of the country. They thought it was a good idea to drive through the Waddenzee, an intertidal zone, UNESCO world heritage site and protected nature area. Then they got stuck in the mud, noticed the water had risen a lot and they needed to abandon the vehicle.

Man tries to kill cockroaches, blows up home by using fly spray as a flamethrower LYDIA LYNCH Last updated 05:04, March 9 2018LYDIA LYNCH/FAIRFAX MEDIA Nobody was seriously injured when the explosion blew out the kitchen.

An Australian man used insect spray as a flamethrower to kill cockroaches, blowing up his kitchen in the process.

Luckily, the three children in the Queensland home, aged 9, 11 and 17, were unharmed after the Wednesday night explosion, which happened about 8pm.

Not so lucky was their father, who was taken to Mount Isa Hospital with "abrasions" to his face and arms.

"It looks like the guy was using pest spray in the kitchen, then a flame was lit, which caused a small fire," a police spokesman said.

Nobody was seriously injured when the explosion blew out the kitchen.

An Australian man used insect spray as a flamethrower to kill cockroaches, blowing up his kitchen in the process.

Luckily, the three children in the Queensland home, aged 9, 11 and 17, were unharmed after the Wednesday night explosion, which happened about 8pm.

Not so lucky was their father, who was taken to Mount Isa Hospital with "abrasions" to his face and arms.

"It looks like the guy was using pest spray in the kitchen, then a flame was lit, which caused a small fire," a police spokesman said.

The mother of the injured man said she only found out about the explosion on Thursday morning.

"Just looking at the house now is a shock," the man's mother, who gave her name as Bernice, said.

"What I heard happened was the explosion caused the stove to fire up and it hit him in the chest. He is out of hospital now and I am going to go and see him," she said.

'It's a spooky, scary place': New Chicago school grounds being built on site of estimated 38,000 unmarked graves

Building on a mass grave. Now that's bad ju-ju.

If they'd only taken a tip from that movie "Poltergeist"

CHICAGO — A 15-year effort to build a school in the Chicago's Dunning neighborhood is underway with an unusual complication: Construction workers are taking careful steps to avoid disturbing human remains that may lie beneath the soil.

The $70 million school is to be built on the grounds of a former Cook County Poor House where an estimated 38,000 people were buried in unmarked graves. Among the dead are residents who were too poor to afford funeral costs, unclaimed bodies and patients from the county's insane asylum.

"There can be and there have been bodies found all over the place," said Barry Fleig, a genealogist and cemetery researcher who began investigating the site in 1989. "It's a spooky, scary place."

Workers have until April 27 to excavate and clear the site, remediate the soil and relocate an existing sewer line. The school is scheduled to open in time for the 2019-20 academic year, though a spokesperson for Chicago Public Schools would not say what type of school it will be.

A sign on the northeast corner of Oak Park Avenue and Irving Park Road reads "Building a New Chicago" to announce the upcoming Read Dunning School at 4071 N. Oak Park Ave.

While the site contracts indicate it will be a middle school, Ald. Nicholas Sposato, 38th, said he is confident the campus will be either a new four-year high school for the Dunning neighborhood or a freshman academy for Taft High School.

"I'm sure they're gonna be on top of some graves, but this is progress," Sposato said. "It's an economic boom for the community."

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